Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 84 49
Rank change year-on-year -36 -35 -5
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,151 1,827 2,669
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.94% 3.34% 5.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 3.71% 5.60%
Number of salaries quoted 783 1,009 2,070
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -0.82% -8.93%
75th Percentile £95,625 £88,750 £88,938
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,372 49,297 47,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.70% 90.05% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 28,344 24,288 36,441
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 3 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -23 1,068 £77,500 +10.71% 469
London +6 606 £85,000 - 213
Work from Home -25 494 £75,000 +11.11% 322
UK excluding London -78 485 £70,000 +7.69% 322
North of England -22 214 £70,000 +12.00% 102
North West -8 112 £66,250 +1.92% 54
South East -105 94 £75,000 +11.11% 106
Yorkshire -20 86 £75,000 +22.54% 34
Midlands -27 60 £75,000 +15.38% 36
South West -50 54 £65,000 - 34
West Midlands +6 34 £72,500 +16.00% 17
Scotland -54 31 £67,500 -3.57% 15
East of England -12 29 £80,000 +39.13% 25
East Midlands -35 24 £77,500 +19.23% 19
North East -7 16 £67,500 +28.57% 14
Wales -13 4 £55,916 +11.83% 12
Northern Ireland -13 3 - -
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 31 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (2.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 24 (2.09%) Apache
3 24 (2.09%) Apache Spark
4 23 (2.00%) Confluence
5 13 (1.13%) OpenStack
6 10 (0.87%) Appian
6 10 (0.87%) JBoss
7 8 (0.70%) CMS
7 8 (0.70%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.43%) Apache Pulsar
8 5 (0.43%) nginx
9 4 (0.35%) IIS
10 3 (0.26%) Liferay
10 3 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.087%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.087%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.087%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.087%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.087%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (1.91%) Maya
2 14 (1.22%) MS Visio
3 12 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.35%) PlantUML
5 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 17 (1.48%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (0.78%) Endur
2 9 (0.78%) SAP FS
3 8 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.26%) Shopify
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.087%) Actimize
7 1 (0.087%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.087%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.087%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.087%) Quorum
7 1 (0.087%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.087%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 607 (52.74%) AWS
2 549 (47.70%) Azure
3 203 (17.64%) Serverless
4 189 (16.42%) GCP
5 159 (13.81%) SaaS
6 120 (10.43%) GitHub
7 112 (9.73%) Azure DevOps
8 83 (7.21%) Amazon S3
9 78 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
10 77 (6.69%) Amazon EKS
11 64 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
12 60 (5.21%) PaaS
13 54 (4.69%) Amazon SQS
14 52 (4.52%) GitHub Actions
15 49 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
16 41 (3.56%) IaaS
17 38 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
17 38 (3.30%) Power Platform
18 34 (2.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 30 (2.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.96%) HTTP
2 9 (0.78%) AMQP
3 5 (0.43%) Internet
4 4 (0.35%) Network Security
4 4 (0.35%) WAN
5 3 (0.26%) Broadband
5 3 (0.26%) Multicast
6 2 (0.17%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.17%) LAN
6 2 (0.17%) SNMP
6 2 (0.17%) SSL
7 1 (0.087%) MQTT
7 1 (0.087%) TCAP
7 1 (0.087%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (14.34%) NoSQL
2 161 (13.99%) PostgreSQL
3 147 (12.77%) MongoDB
4 129 (11.21%) SQL Server
5 61 (5.30%) DynamoDB
6 57 (4.95%) Relational Database
7 51 (4.43%) MySQL
8 44 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
9 42 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
10 30 (2.61%) Redis
11 23 (2.00%) Big Data
11 23 (2.00%) Power BI
12 20 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
12 20 (1.74%) RDBMS
13 18 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
14 17 (1.48%) Tableau
15 15 (1.30%) DB2
16 14 (1.22%) BigQuery
17 10 (0.87%) Pinecone
18 7 (0.61%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 154 (13.38%) Git
2 119 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 56 (4.87%) JIRA
4 49 (4.26%) GitLab
5 40 (3.48%) JUnit
5 40 (3.48%) Selenium
6 31 (2.69%) Cucumber
7 28 (2.43%) TeamCity
8 25 (2.17%) Mockito
9 23 (2.00%) Cypress.io
9 23 (2.00%) JMeter
10 21 (1.82%) Bitbucket
11 17 (1.48%) Oracle Forms
12 14 (1.22%) CircleCI
13 12 (1.04%) Maven
14 10 (0.87%) Postman
15 9 (0.78%) LoadRunner
16 8 (0.70%) git-flow
17 7 (0.61%) REST Assured
17 7 (0.61%) Snyk
General
1 349 (30.32%) Social Skills
2 335 (29.11%) Finance
3 118 (10.25%) Banking
4 108 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 99 (8.60%) Law
6 69 (5.99%) Public Sector
7 55 (4.78%) Retail
8 48 (4.17%) Games
9 45 (3.91%) Financial Institution
10 37 (3.21%) Telecoms
11 31 (2.69%) French Language
12 30 (2.61%) Dutch Language
12 30 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 25 (2.17%) Back Office
13 25 (2.17%) Billing
14 24 (2.09%) Legal
14 24 (2.09%) Marketing
15 22 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
15 22 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (1.39%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 401 (34.84%) Developer
2 270 (23.46%) Senior
3 239 (20.76%) Architect
4 195 (16.94%) Software Engineer
5 170 (14.77%) Lead
6 114 (9.90%) Solutions Architect
7 100 (8.69%) .NET Developer
8 96 (8.34%) Java Developer
9 94 (8.17%) Senior Developer
10 93 (8.08%) Full-Stack Developer
11 65 (5.65%) Senior Software Engineer
12 58 (5.04%) Java Engineer
13 55 (4.78%) Lead Developer
14 49 (4.26%) Software Developer
15 43 (3.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 41 (3.56%) Cloud Engineer
16 41 (3.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 38 (3.30%) Lead Architect
18 34 (2.95%) Java Software Engineer
18 34 (2.95%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 298 (25.89%) .NET
2 283 (24.59%) React
3 247 (21.46%) RESTful
4 199 (17.29%) Spring
5 193 (16.77%) REST
6 179 (15.55%) Kafka
7 173 (15.03%) Spring Boot
8 147 (12.77%) Node.js
9 142 (12.34%) AngularJS
10 119 (10.34%) .NET Core
11 95 (8.25%) HTML
12 76 (6.60%) .NET Framework
13 67 (5.82%) ASP.NET
13 67 (5.82%) CSS
14 63 (5.47%) ASP.NET Web API
15 59 (5.13%) RabbitMQ
16 57 (4.95%) Middleware
17 55 (4.78%) Entity Framework
18 51 (4.43%) Django
19 49 (4.26%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 296 (25.72%) Cloud Native
2 171 (14.86%) Distributed Systems
3 128 (11.12%) Enterprise Software
4 97 (8.43%) Product Ownership
5 48 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
6 46 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
7 35 (3.04%) Data Structures
8 31 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
9 30 (2.61%) Algorithms
9 30 (2.61%) Virtual Team
10 26 (2.26%) Blockchain
11 23 (2.00%) AI Agents
11 23 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
12 22 (1.91%) Onboarding
13 17 (1.48%) Low-Code
13 17 (1.48%) Mobile App
14 16 (1.39%) IoT
15 15 (1.30%) Management Information System
16 14 (1.22%) Public Cloud
17 12 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 47 (4.08%) Linux
2 20 (1.74%) Android
3 19 (1.65%) Windows
4 10 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.26%) CentOS
5 3 (0.26%) Debian
5 3 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.17%) VMS
7 1 (0.087%) Fedora
7 1 (0.087%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 577 (50.13%) Agile
2 533 (46.31%) CI/CD
3 482 (41.88%) DevOps
4 366 (31.80%) Software Engineering
5 276 (23.98%) Full-Stack Development
6 275 (23.89%) Containerisation
7 250 (21.72%) AI
8 242 (21.03%) Mentoring
9 236 (20.50%) Problem-Solving
10 208 (18.07%) Event-Driven
11 196 (17.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 184 (15.99%) Computer Science
13 159 (13.81%) Test Automation
14 156 (13.55%) TDD
15 152 (13.21%) Scrum
16 150 (13.03%) Roadmaps
17 143 (12.42%) Technical Leadership
18 130 (11.29%) Architectural Patterns
19 128 (11.12%) Clean Code
19 128 (11.12%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 386 (33.54%) Java
2 288 (25.02%) C#
3 283 (24.59%) Python
4 272 (23.63%) SQL
5 254 (22.07%) JavaScript
6 210 (18.25%) TypeScript
7 62 (5.39%) Go
8 34 (2.95%) Shell Script
9 29 (2.52%) PL/SQL
10 24 (2.09%) C++
10 24 (2.09%) PHP
11 21 (1.82%) C
12 19 (1.65%) Bash
13 18 (1.56%) Ruby
14 15 (1.30%) Kotlin
15 14 (1.22%) PowerShell
16 12 (1.04%) Rust
17 7 (0.61%) Scala
18 6 (0.52%) Bicep
18 6 (0.52%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 207 (17.98%) Degree
2 135 (11.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 90 (7.82%) Security Cleared
4 66 (5.73%) SC Cleared
5 64 (5.56%) AWS Certification
6 56 (4.87%) Master's Degree
7 49 (4.26%) TOGAF Certification
8 44 (3.82%) Azure Certification
9 35 (3.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 32 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
12 14 (1.22%) DV Cleared
13 9 (0.78%) PMI Certification
13 9 (0.78%) PMP
14 8 (0.70%) CISM
14 8 (0.70%) CISSP
15 5 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
16 4 (0.35%) ISTQB
16 4 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 2 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (7.21%) QA
2 23 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 22 (1.91%) GDPR
4 18 (1.56%) PCI DSS
5 11 (0.96%) IFRS
5 11 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.96%) SLA
6 9 (0.78%) IFRS 17
6 9 (0.78%) NIST
6 9 (0.78%) Solvency II
7 8 (0.70%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.70%) EMIR
7 8 (0.70%) NCSC
8 7 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.43%) WCAG
10 3 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.26%) SEPA
11 2 (0.17%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.17%) PSD2
11 2 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 350 (30.41%) Docker
2 15 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.17%) Firmware
4 2 (0.17%) Terminal Server
4 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.17%) vSphere
5 1 (0.087%) HDFS
5 1 (0.087%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 338 (29.37%) Kubernetes
2 178 (15.46%) Terraform
3 43 (3.74%) Ansible
3 43 (3.74%) Grafana
4 28 (2.43%) Kibana
5 18 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (1.22%) Prometheus
7 13 (1.13%) Argo
8 5 (0.43%) Puppet
9 4 (0.35%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.35%) Kubeflow
9 4 (0.35%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.26%) Istio
11 2 (0.17%) Rancher
12 1 (0.087%) Nagios
Vendors
1 181 (15.73%) Microsoft
2 63 (5.47%) Oracle
3 29 (2.52%) Google
4 28 (2.43%) Guidewire
5 20 (1.74%) Salesforce
5 20 (1.74%) SAP
5 20 (1.74%) Splunk
6 19 (1.65%) Dynatrace
7 18 (1.56%) BiZZdesign
7 18 (1.56%) OpenAI
8 13 (1.13%) CrowdStrike
8 13 (1.13%) MuleSoft
9 12 (1.04%) Atlassian
9 12 (1.04%) Duck Creek
9 12 (1.04%) Software AG
10 11 (0.96%) IBM
11 10 (0.87%) Fortinet
11 10 (0.87%) Palo Alto
12 8 (0.70%) Adobe
12 8 (0.70%) Red Hat